BBC have announced a prequel to Only Fools and Horses. Set in the 60s and based around teenaged Del boy, his parents and a safecracker.
"Only Fools..." prequel announced
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Bollocks, I thought this abortion had been wisely canned.
I thought it had too. Wasn't there rumours that Nick Lyndhurst was to play Reg?
Not Reg, Freddie - it's been implied right back to the mid-80s that he was Rodney's real father, and Lyndhurst's already 'played' him in old photos.
OMG the BBC are raping my childhood
I take it Freddie Rodbal is Freaddie the frog
I take it Freddie Rodbal is Freaddie the frog
OH
For some reason, I thought that they had already done a OFAH prequel. Or maybe it was just discussed years ago.
Remember the First of The Summer Wine prequel to Last of ? Thought not. Perhaps they can next do a Grandad's Army, about what the boys of the Home Guard were up to during WW1. Or Fawlty College, with Basil at catering college, learning how to be a hotelier. Or Seminarian Ted, about the future Fr Crilly's days in the seminary, listening to Dana. Or a prequel about David Brent's early days in Wernham Hogg, before he rose to the dizzy heights of Regional Manager ...
I need to go lie down.
Remember the First of The Summer Wine prequel to Last of ? Thought not. Perhaps they can next do a Grandad's Army, about what the boys of the Home Guard were up to during WW1. Or Fawlty College, with Basil at catering college, learning how to be a hotelier. Or Seminarian Ted, about the future Fr Crilly's days in the seminary, listening to Dana. Or a prequel about David Brent's early days in Wernham Hogg, before he rose to the dizzy heights of Regional Manager ...
I need to go lie down.
How about Top gear the teenage years.
We've already got Top Gear the nursery years, with the ads they're currently running.
I love little Stig in the words of Jeremy Clarkson he's sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet
And anyway, shouldn't it be called Only Fools and Foals?
Well clearly last week's challenge was a deliberate set-up for a spin-off series.
This is a wretched idea. Shame on the BBC.
^Surely it's shame on John Sullivan for even coming up with it, it's his show...
I was never a fan of OFAH, I've just never seen enough eps to form an opinion, though I like David Jason in everything else I've seen, bar 'Darling Buds of May' (though it does have a young Catharine Zeta Jones looking particularly... uh, yummy).
But this prequel idea sounds just awful, really bad.
But this prequel idea sounds just awful, really bad.
I may have just become interested in this, BBC just had a press release saying filming has started and apparently James Buckley, Jay from Inbetweeners, is playing Del...
This seems pretty pointless. OFAH was a classic comedy and is endlessly rewatchable in my eyes, but it really should have been left alone with the three Christmas specials in the mid-90s. That was a perfect ending for the Trotters and it was completely derailed by that (unsuccessful) revival. It was a great comedy, not a franchise.
I find it hilarious that everyone is slamming a show that hasn't even been made yet. 
Shaun Dingwall would be a good choice, the only problem is that he doesn't look a lot like the guy who played the older version of Del's dad. I don't know any of the other actors (apart from, obviously, Lyndhurst), but the guy they cast as Del will have a big shoes to fill.
Shaun Dingwall would be a good choice, the only problem is that he doesn't look a lot like the guy who played the older version of Del's dad. I don't know any of the other actors (apart from, obviously, Lyndhurst), but the guy they cast as Del will have a big shoes to fill.
I generally don't agree with bashing a show before seeing it to actually form an opinion, but I don't hold out high hopes after most of BBC One's primetime comedy and Green, Green Grass.
But the casting does seem interesting so I'll check it out.
But the casting does seem interesting so I'll check it out.